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religion triumphs! Asatru priest Steve McNallen consecrates the Columbia Park ground near where Kennewick Man was found in the summer of 1996.

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Thanks for the information. I hadn't ever heard of Asatru so I did a quick google.

Pagans battle corps over old bones

This story was published Saturday, August 23rd, 1997

By Mike Lee Herald staff writer

As Norse pagans prepare to celebrate the 9,200-year-old bones found last summer in Kennewick, they also are stepping up their legal fight.

The Asatru Folk Assembly filed a motion Friday in U.S. District Court in Portland asking Magistrate Judge John Jelderks to remove the so-called Kennewick Man remains from the Army Corps of Engineers' jurisdiction.[snip]

Once they found out the corps allowed American Indian tribes to hold secret ceremonies with the bones, the Asatru said the corps could not be trusted as an arbiter in the case. [excerpt]